Good Morning Mission! 12.19.13

Well, it looks the Board of Supervisors have a new contraband target in San Francisco. Going the way of Styrofoam and plastic bags, the city has its eye on bottled water as the next thing to be axed. In what could be the strictest bottled water ban in the country, Supervisor David Chiu put forth the ordinance on Tuesday that would require that events held on public property with more than 100 people – think the oodles of events we have in this city all of the time, like Outside Lands or Hardly Strictly – make tap water available instead of selling bottled water.

While San Francisco does boast some of the highest-quality water in the country, thanks to its pristine sourcing from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, making tap water accessible to hordes of people at a time can be tricky. Inadequate refilling stations and water fountains (only three for a crowd of oh, 65,000) already caused frustration headaches and major buzzkills during Outside Lands, so it would be up to the city to hash out some plans to better supply water during such events.

Didn’t we just get this new bridge? The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is currently undergoing its $25 million fix to repair some broken rods, highlighting the embarrassing fumbles the newbie span has already experienced. Originally slated to cost $10 million, the need for a more expensive retrofit soared when a third of the galvanized steel rods holding down massive seismic stabilizers snapped just two weeks after being tightened. At least she looks pretty.

The housing crunch may let up now that the city has about 40,000 affordable housing units in the development pipeline, Mayor Ed Lee said on Wednesday. Lee spoke of his intention to do everything in his power to get 100 percent affordable projects prioritized for building. Lee also reminded San Franciscans to celebrate the tech sector’s success - not blame it for the housing crisis.

The New York Times put the Mission’s fashion on their multimedia runway - showing off our sartorial tastes from found fashion and old lady blouses, to saying flamboyant San Franciscan-y things like “Fashion is like a form of drag in our daily life.”